• Luck came Theodor Geisel’s way when he had given up on ever getting his first children’s book, And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street, published. He was walking down Madison Street, carrying the manuscript when he bumped into Mike McClintock, a friend from college, who asked what he was carrying under his arm. Mr. Geisel replied, “A book that no one will publish. I’m lugging it home to burn.” As it happened, Mr. Geisel’s old college friend worked as an editor of children’s books at a major publishing house: Vanguard. He liked the book, and so the first Dr. Seuss book was published. Later in his career, luck continued to bless Mr. Geisel. One day, he was working on transparent tracing paper in his studio when a gust of wind blew his transparent drawing of an elephant on top of a drawing of a tree. Mr. Geisel looked at the juxtaposition, then thought to himself that he should figure out why the elephant was sitting in a tree. He figured it out, and the solution became his book Horton Hatches the Egg. From these events in his life, Mr. Geisel concluded, “See, everything has to do with luck.”
• Ann Landers, née Esther Pauline Friedman, got her job as an advice columnist fortuitously. One of her friends was an executive on the Chicago Sun-Times. She called the friend to ask if she could help the newspaper’s advice columnist answer her mail. As it happened, the advice columnist had died one week earlier.
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• Esquire founding editor Arnold Gingrich wanted major-league writing talent for the magazine, and he knew how to get it. When he contacted Ernest Hemingway about writing for Esquire, the famed writer suggested a shooting contest. If Mr. Gingrich won, then Mr. Hemingway would write for the magazine. Mr. Gingrich did win, and Esquire published Mr. Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
• Gary Paulsen’s novel Hatchet, about a 14-year-old boy named Brian surviving in the Northern wilderness with the aid of only a hatchet, was so well and realistically written that after it was published, people from the National Geographic Society called Mr. Paulsen to see if they could arrange to interview Brian.
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• Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne once met writer Heywood Broun and told him, “I’m glad to know you, Broun. I often read your articles in the World.” This was a mistake because Mr. Broun had not written for the World for two years. Mr. Broun replied, “I’m glad to hear that. And by the way, that’s a great basketball team you have at Yale.”
• When author Gary Paulsen first competed in the Iditarod, a 1,049-mile dog-sled race beginning in Anchorage, Alaska, he was voted by his fellow racers the “least likely to get out of Anchorage.” He did finish the race, but he almost did not get out of Anchorage after taking a wrong turn that led him downtown instead of out in the wilderness.
• The funniest typo that ever occurred in a work by children’s book writer Phyllis Reynolds Naylor appeared in a short story titled “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Instead of reading, “Marvin Migglesby sat by the fire roasting chestnuts and feeding them to the dog,” the last line read, “Marvin Migglesby sat by the fire roasting the dog.”
• Author Joel Perry once parked his car at a place without parking meters. He did notice a number of holes dug in the earth by the curb but thought nothing of them. When he returned to his car, he discovered that the holes had been used to put in parking meters and he had received a parking ticket.
Pierre Charles L'Enfant (French: August 2, 1754 – June 14, 1825), self-identified as Peter Charles L'Enfant while living in the United States, was appointed to plan the new "Federal City". By what name is his "Federal City" known today?
Apple cider (also called sweet cider or soft cider or simply cider) is the name used in the United States and Canada for an unfiltered, unsweetened, non-alcoholic beverage made from apples. Though typically referred to simply as "cider" in the United States, it is not to be confused with the alcoholic beverage known as cider in other places, which is called "hard cider" in the US.
It is the liquid extracted from an apple and all its components, that is then boiled to concentration. The liquid can be extracted from the apple itself, the apple core, the trimmings from apples, or apple culls. It is typically opaque due to fine apple particles in suspension and generally tangier than commercial filtered apple juice, but this depends on the variety of apples used. Cider is typically pasteurized to kill bacteria and extend its shelf life, but untreated cider is common. In either form, apple cider is seasonally produced in autumn. It is traditionally served on the Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and various New Year's Eve holidays, sometimes heated and mulled.
Apple cider is the official beverage of the U.S. state of New Hampshire.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
New Hampshire.
Billy in Cypress U. $. A. said:
New Hampshire
At #45's Town Hall broadcast Thursday night:
he lied, he lied about lying, he excused the lies as coming from unnamed "others", and then he changed the subject to tell new lies, deflect/switch and repeat ad infinitum.
Alan J answered:
New Hampshire.
Randall wrote:
New Hampshire
Mac Mac replied:
New Hampshire
zorch responded:
New Hampshire.
Dave wrote:
New Hampshire. Not only did I not know that, I didn’t even remember that New Hampshire is a state. Why is it a state anyway?
Cal in Vermont said:
Nampsha. Hrmph. Ours is better.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Apple cider is the official beverage of the U.S. state of New Hampshire.
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
That’s Not Hampshah. I didn’t even know that was a thing, a state beverage. Would that be wine for California?
I do know that cooking apple cider down makes apple butter, one of my most favorite condiments in the world.
Still hot and stupid-windy. Hope we can skate by with no fires this time. Especially since #45 decided to cancel CA disaster funds; we can’t afford to burn the 6th largest economy in the world. November 4th can’t arrive too soon.
Sorry about your hand, Marty. Hope you heal up and are pain-free soon.
Rosemary in Columbus said:
New Hampshire
DJ Useo answered:
I love fresh cider. I bet New Hampshire has great cider. Now, please excuse me for a mo'.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) said:
According to the Googles it's New Hampshire. If it was years earlier I would have guessed Michigan. My dad put up a barrel of apple cider, from apples from our own orchard, in a room in the basement every year. It slowly turned to hard cider and was absolutely delicious.
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CBS fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
NBC on the East coast starts the night with a RERUN'Weakest Link', Followed by an old 'SNL'.
NBC on the left coast starts the night early with a RERUN'Weakest Link', followed by LIVE'SNL', then an old 'SNL'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Issa Rae hosting, music by Justin Bieber.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
The CW offers some old 'Friends', and some old '2½ Men'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Masked Singer', followed by a RERUN'I Can See Your Voice'.
MY recycles an old 'Weather Gone Viral', followed by an old 'Storm Of Suspicion'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'Live Rescue'.
AMC offers the movie 'Halloween H2O; 20 Years Later', followed by the movie 'Halloween', then the FRESH'Eli Roth's History Of Horror'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] MISSION GALÁPAGOS - CAULDRON OF LIFE
[7:00AM] MISSION GALÁPAGOS - SECRETS OF THE DEEP
[8:00AM] MISSION GALÁPAGOS - FUTURE FRONTIERS
[9:00AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - THE BEST OF SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET
[11:00AM] ENCHANTED KINGDOM
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH: ONE AMAZING DAY
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - THE DEEP
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - THE OPEN OCEAN
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - FROZEN SEAS
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - SEASONAL SEAS
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - CORAL SEAS
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - TIDAL SEAS
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - COASTS
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - THE BLUE PLANET
[12:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - THE DEEP
[1:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - THE OPEN OCEAN
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - FROZEN SEAS
[3:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - SEASONAL SEAS
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - CORAL SEAS
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - TIDAL SEAS (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift', followed by the movie 'Fast & Furious', then the movie 'Fast & Furious', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Bruce Almighty', followed by the movie 'Dumb & Dumber', then the movie 'Joe Dirt'.
FX has the movie 'Skyscraper', followed by the movie 'Venom', then a FRESH'Fargo'.
History has all old 'The Men Who Built America' all night.
IFC -
[6:00am] Saved By The Bell
[6:30am] Saved By The Bell
[7:00am] Saved By The Bell
[7:30am] Saved By The Bell
[8:00am] Saved By The Bell
[8:30am] Saved By The Bell
[9:00am] Saved By The Bell
[9:30am] Saved By The Bell
[10:00am] Saved By The Bell
[10:30am] Saved By The Bell
[11:00am] Saved By The Bell
[11:30am] Saved By The Bell
[12:00pm] Saved By The Bell
[12:30pm] Saved By The Bell
[1:00pm] Eight Legged Freaks
[3:15pm] Friday The 13th
[5:30pm] Friday The 13th, Part 2
[7:30pm] Friday The 13th - Part III
[9:30pm] Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter
[11:30pm] Friday The 13th
[1:45am] Eli Roth's History Of Horror - Houses Of Hell
[2:45am] Eight Legged Freaks
[5:00am] The Three Stooges - Ants In The Pantry
[5:30am] The Three Stooges - Rhythm & Weep (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[12:00am] law & order
[1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] columbo - By Dawn's Early Light
[4:15am] columbo - Troubled Waters
[6:30am] the andy griffith show
[7:00am] the andy griffith show
[7:30am] the andy griffith show
[8:00am] the andy griffith show
[8:30am] the andy griffith show
[9:00am] the andy griffith show
[9:30am] the andy griffith show
[10:00am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am] hogan's heroes
[11:30am] hogan's heroes
[12:00pm] hogan's heroes
[12:30pm] hogan's heroes
[1:00pm] hogan's heroes
[1:30pm] hogan's heroes
[2:00pm] hogan's heroes
[2:30pm] hogan's heroes
[3:00pm] hogan's heroes
[3:30pm] hogan's heroes
[4:00pm] hogan's heroes
[4:30pm] hogan's heroes
[5:00pm] a league of their own
[8:00pm] erin brockovich
[11:00pm] dear white people
[1:30am] a league of their own
[4:30am] perry mason
[5:30am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Boo 2: A Madea Halloween', followed by the movie 'Tales From The Hood 3'.
TCM "improved" their website & I can no longer access it.
John Fogerty has once again spoken out against Donald Trump (R-Deplorable)’s use of “Fortunate Son” at his campaign events, issuing a cease and desist letter demanding the president’s campaign refrain from doing so in the future.
“I object to the President using my song, ‘Fortunate Son’ in any way for his campaign,” the former Creedence Clearwater Revival singer wrote in a Tweet. “He is using my words and my voice to portray a message that I do not endorse.”
“Therefore, I am issuing a ‘cease and desist’ order,” he continued. “I wrote this song because, as a veteran, I was disgusted that some people were allowed to be excluded from serving our country because they had access to political and financial privilege. I also wrote about wealthy people not paying their fair share of taxes. Mr. Trump is a prime example of both of these issues. The fact that Mr. Trump also fans the flames of hatred, racism and fear while rewriting recent history, is even more reason to be troubled by his use of my song.”
In the cease and desist letter, obtained by Rolling Stone, a lawyer for Fogerty told the Trump campaign that the use of “Fortunate Son” at the president’s rallies and events is “likely to cause confusion, mistake and deceive the public as to the affiliation, connection, sponsorship or association of President Trump by or with John Fogerty.” The letter claimed the use of the song constituted as “trademark infringement, unfair competition, false designation of origin and false description” in violation of U.S. code.
This issue first flared up in September when Trump played “Fortunate Son” as he walked off Air Force One right before a rally in Freeland, Michigan. “It’s a song I could’ve written now,” Fogerty said at the time. “And so I find it confusing, I would say, that the president has chosen to use my song for his political rallies, when in fact it seems like he is probably the fortunate son.”
There’s a good amount of beloved vintage Disney content that peddled anti-Black and anti-Indigenous ideology, often with a jaunty tune. Peter Pan is especially guilty of this with its depiction of Tiger Lily, as is Dumbo, which based the crows and minstrel imagery that boiled Black people down to stereotypes. All are currently available on Disney+, but the streamer has no plans to follow the examples of their competition and remove the content (which, in the grand scheme of things, only benefits those who made the content in the first place). Instead, the nearly one-year-old platform has opted to add an updated disclaimer ahead of their controversial titles, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Now, when users stream either of these and similarly scrutinized films, they will be met with a message that says, “This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures.” If only there was a single word they could use here that would mean “the mistreatment of people based on their culture.” Ah well.
To be clear, Disney+ has been implementing content warnings on some of its old films since launch. This updated language, however, comes at the heels of consultations with groups like the African American Film Critics Association, Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment and GLAAD. Prior to the update, the warning was only viewable on the “Details” page of the desired film, which users had to voluntarily view. Now, the disclaimer is both on the detail page and automatically shows just before the feature begins. “These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now,” the disclaimer reads. “Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together. Disney is committed to creating stories with inspirational and aspirational themes that reflect the rich diversity of the human experience around the globe.”
Other films tagged with the disclaimer include The Aristocats for its racist depiction of East Asians via the Siamese cats Si and Am, and The Swiss Family Robinson, which THR notes is “cited for pirates depicted as a ‘stereotypical foreign menace” as they don yellow face or brown face and portrayed as barbaric. The move is considered a part of Disney’s Stories Matter initiative, which details how each of these images are harmful to communities of color.
Attorneys for actor Ron Ely and his family are challenging a recent review of a 2019 shooting that took the life of the actor's son, Cameron Ely, after a 911 call to the family home about a reported attack on his mother, Ron's wife Valerie Lundeen Ely.
In a press release issues ahead of a news conference Thursday, the attorneys say they will present new evidence that they say will prove Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies "engaged in the unjustified use of deadly force and denial of medical care, resulting in the deaths of Ely’s wife and son exactly one year earlier."
A District Attorney's report last week said the shooting was justified.
“The deputies engaged in a summary execution of Cameron Ely and intentionally denied lifesaving medical care to Valerie Ely, in contrast with protocol and longstanding practice,” said DeWitt M. Lacy, a civil rights attorney with the Law Offices of John L. Burris, which represents the Ely family.
“The shooting of Cameron was unconscionable; there is zero evidence supporting police claims alleging that Cameron said he had a gun,” said Attorney John L. Burris, who has litigated hundreds of cases involving wrongful police actions, Burris said “The shooting of Cameron was one of the most egregious uses of excessive deadly force that I have ever seen.”
President Donald Trump (R-Humor Impaired) has appeared to fall for a satirical article joking that Twitter closed down its entire network to stop damaging information about Democratic nominee Joe Biden from spreading.
Early Friday morning the president shared an article by "The Babylon Bee" — titled "Twitter Shuts Down Entire Network To Slow Spread Of Negative Biden News" — adding: "Wow, this has never been done in history. This includes his really bad interview last night. Why is Twitter doing this. Bringing more attention to Sleepy Joe & Big T."
The Babylon Bee is a conservative satirical website that pokes fun at Democrats and liberals. In its Twitter bio, the publication describes itself as "fake news you can trust."
The article jokingly linked Twitter's brief outage on Thursday to its Wednesday decision to limit the spread of a questionable New York Post article about Biden's son, Hunter, and unsubstantiated claims about his business activities in Ukraine.
The Trump White House has installed two political operatives at the nation’s top public health agency to try to control the information it releases about the coronavirus pandemic as the administration seeks to paint a positive outlook, sometimes at odds with the scientific evidence.
The two appointees assigned to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Atlanta headquarters in June have no public health background. They have instead been tasked with keeping an eye on Dr. Robert Redfield, the agency director, as well as scientists, according to a half-dozen CDC and administration officials who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal government affairs.
The appointments were part of a push to get more “politicals” into the CDC to help control messaging after a handful of leaks were “upsetting the apple cart,” said an administration official.
When the two appointees showed up in Atlanta, their roles were a mystery to senior CDC staff, the people said. They had not even been assigned offices. Eventually one, Nina Witkofsky, became acting chief of staff, an influential role as Redfield’s right hand. The other, her deputy Chester “Trey” Moeller, also began sitting in on scientific meetings, the sources said.
It’s not clear to what extent the two appointees have affected the agency’s work, according to interviews with multiple CDC officials. But congressional investigators are examining that very question after evidence has mounted of political interference in CDC scientific publications, guidance documents and web postings.
At first glance the apparently barren expanses of the Sahel and Sahara deserts feature little greenery, but detailed satellite imagery combined with computer deep learning has revealed a different picture.
In fact, some 1.8 billion trees dot parts of the West African Sahara and Sahel deserts and so-called sub-humid zone, a previously uncounted bounty that overturns previous assumptions about such habitats, researchers say.
"We were very surprised that there are quite (so) many trees growing in the Sahara desert," lead author Martin Brandt told AFP.
"Certainly there are vast areas without any trees, but there are still areas with a high tree density, and even between the sandy dunes there are here and there some trees growing," added Brandt, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Copenhagen.
Finding and counting the trees was no simple task. In areas with plenty of trees, thick clumps of growth appear relatively clearly in satellite images, even at low resolution, and are easily distinguishable from bare land.
A boy made the discovery of his lifetime when he found a dinosaur skeleton dating back 69 million years.
The amateur palaeontologist was out hiking with his father in a fossil-rich part of Alberta, Canada this July, when he saw bones protruding from a rock.
On Thursday, the skeleton's excavation was completed.
The boy, Nathan Hrushkin, says when he first laid eyes on the bones, he was "literally speechless".
"I wasn't even excited, even though I know I should have [been]," he tells the BBC.
More than 10,000 years ago on the playa of what is now New Mexico, a woman on a journey set down the toddler she was carrying on her hip, readjusted, then picked up the child and set off again.
The remnants of this all-too-human moment are preserved in a trackway found in White Sands National Park — the longest late Pleistocene double human trackway found anywhere in the world. At 0.9 miles (1.5 kilometers) long, the set of tracks preserves an out-and-back journey taken at a fast clip by a single adult and a child under the age of 2.
During the journey, the adult — probably a woman, though possibly an adolescent male — came in close proximity to a giant sloth and a woolly mammoth, the trackway reveals.
"It's giving us these amazing snapshots in time," said Sally Reynolds, a paleontologist at Bournemouth University in the U.K. and the senior author of a new paper on the tracks published online ahead of its print publication in the December issue of the journal Quaternary Science Reviews.
The trackway was first discovered in 2017, thanks to National Parks employee David Bustos, who invited a group of scientists — including Reynolds' husband, Matthew Bennett, a geoscientist at Bournemouth University — to view the site. Bustos had noticed possible signs of footprints on the flat, arid playa landscape while patrolling the park, then a national monument.
A bizarre little insect that looks like a walking toupée and squirts venomous pus from knifelike spines is terrorizing Virginia this year, according to the state's Department of Forestry (VDoF).
The venomous pus caterpillar is the larval form of the southern flannel moth (Megalopyge opercularis), and if you see one you should stay away from it. Its "hairs" are actually spines that make it among the most venomous caterpillars in the United States. A woman in New Kent County described the sensation of a "scorching hot knife passing through the outside of my calf" when she brushed against one on the door of her car, according to The Daily Progress.
Pus caterpillars have appeared in Virginia before, according to the VDoF. And they've been found as far north as New Jersey. But they're much more common in Florida and at greatest abundance in west-central Texas, according to the University of Florida. Eric Day, manager of Virginia Tech's Insect Identification Lab, told The Daily Progress that this appears to be "an outbreak year."
Climate change has made weather warmer in Virginia, as it has across much of the country.
Virginia Tech published a document on what to do if "stung" by a poisonous caterpillar. Key steps: Wash the area to get rid of any hairs or harmful substances left over. Place tape over the area then rip it off to pull out hairs embedded in the skin. (Do this a few times, but use a fresh piece of tape each time.) Ice packs and steroid creams will reduce swelling and make the sting less painful. And anyone who's had a bad reaction to insects in the past or who was stung near the eyes should contact a doctor immediately.
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